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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] O(1) Entitlement Based Scheduler
Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Peter Williams wrote:
>
>> 2. have a user space daemon poll running tasks periodically and renice
>> them if they are running specified binaries
>>
>> Both of these solutions have their advantages and disadvantages, are
>> (obviously) complicated than I've made them sound and would require a
>> great deal of care to be taken during their implementation. However,
>> I think that they are both doable. My personal preference would be
>> for the in kernel solution on the grounds of efficiency.
>
>
> Better would be to have the kernel tell the daemon whenever a process in
> exec-ed, and you have simplicity in the kernel, and policy in user space.

Yes. That would be a good solution. Does a mechanism that allows the
kernel to notify specific programs about specific events like this exist?

Peter
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